University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-January 26, 2005 - #E-04

ALA Midwinter Brown Bag
The ALA MidWinter Brown Bag, sponsored by the Lectures and Forums Committee, will be held on Feb. 1, 2005, from noon-1:30 p.m. at the Student Center East.

LHS Awarded Funding for Public Health Project
The Library of the Health Sciences was awarded $46,501 by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for a public health project in collaboration with UIC's College of Nursing, and two Chicago Department of Public Health clinics serving Chicago's Lower West Side and South Lawndale.

The goals of the project are to develop a cadre of community health nursing students well educated in accessing and evaluating health education materials, increase patient health education with language-appropriate materials, and increase access to health information by health care practitioners in the clinics. Carol Scherrer is the principal investigator, Kristin Hitchcock is the project manager and co-principal investigator, Margaret Cassey from the CON is the clinical consultant and co-principal investigator and Ann Weller is the consultant.

Agenda Items
If anyone has suggestions for agenda items for the Executive Committee meeting of Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, please contact John Cullars, Bibliographer for the Humanities (6-2730, jcullars@uic.edu) or Mary Case, University Librarian (6-2716, marycase@uic.edu).

Research Brown Bag
The next research brown bag is Feb. 2 2005, Daley Library, Noon-1 p.m., in Room B 466.

UIC 2010 Strategic Thinking Campus Forums
The UIC community is invited to discuss the 2010 Strategic Thinking document draft, which will be released in early February, and provide feedback to the 2010 Strategic Thinking Committee.

Wednesday, Feb 9, 2005, 3-5 p.m. CIU Room 206-AB
Thursday, Feb 10, 2005, 3-5 p.m CCC Room 603

Open to all UIC Faculty, Students and Staff

Sponsored by the 2010 Strategic Thinking Committee / Office of the Vice Provost for Planning and Programs

Please contact Wendy Messenger at 312-413-2899 or wmesse1@uic.edu with any question.

UIAA Student Leadership Award and Activities Honorary Society
Nominations are due Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005, for the 2005 Student Leadership Award and the 2005 Activities Honorary Society! The University of Illinois Alumni Association (UIAA) is proud to offer two prestigious awards recognizing student leaders for their exceptional contributions at UIC.

The 2005 Student Leadership Award is given to graduating students (undergraduate, graduate or professional) who have demonstrated exceptional leadership through their involvement in diverse campus student organizations.

Nominees for the award should have received their degrees in summer or fall 2004, or who are candidates for graduation in May 2005.

Recipients of the award will be honored at the UIAA Leadership Awards Dinner on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2005.

The 2005 Activities Honorary Society recognizes students whose participation in a variety of activities on campus has contributed to a better community for everyone. Eligible nominees must be associated with at least three relatively diverse student organizations or activities with a key leadership role in one of the three, and be in good academic standing with at least 72 credit hours completed by the end of the 2004 Spring Semester. Graduate and professional students are also eligible. Inductees will be honored at a private ceremony sponsored by the UIAA on Sunday, May 1, 2005.

Download a nomination form or nominate a student online, and click on either the Student Leadership Award or Activities Honorary Society. If you have questions or would like a paper copy of the nomination form, please contact Tara Anderson, Assistant Director of Student and Young Alumni Programs, at tlndrsn1@uic.edu or 312/413-2382.

University of Illinois Alumni Association
Building Relationships For Life

Spring 2005 Arts, Architecture and Humanities (AAH) Competition
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to announce the Spring 2005 Arts, Architecture, and Humanities (OVCR-AAH) Competition.

The OVCR Arts, Architecture, and Humanities (OVCR-AAH) competition awards grants of up to $5,000 a year to UIC tenured and tenure-track faculty.

OVCR-AAH awards support diverse research projects, including those leading to scholarly publications, exhibitions, performances, competitions, and external grant applications. Funds can be used in a variety of ways: for example, purchasing equipment, travel to do research, and either initiating or completing a research project. Full or part-time course release during a semester may be awarded only for exceptional proposals.

DEADLINE:
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2005
Amount of award: up to $5,000
Grant period: July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006
OR, when applicable: twelve consecutive months beginning on the IRB approval date Proposals should be delivered to the Institute for the Humanities, lower level Stevenson Hall.

OVCR-AAH application guidelines and forms are available online.
To receive a copy of OVCR-AAH materials directly, call 996-6354.

Questions should be directed to the Institute for the Humanities, 996-6354, fax 996-2938, huminst@uic.edu.

On The ARL Server, Jan. 24, 2005

NEW ITEMS ON THE ARL SERVER:

The well-attended SPARC/ACRL Forum at ALA Midwinter 2005, "In the Public Interest: Open Access and Public Policy," featured speakers who represented the National Library of Medicine, biomedical research, and patients and their their views on the new NIH public access plan.


Expenditure Trends in ARL Libraries 1986-2003
All ARL Libraries [PDF]
ARL Public University Libraries [PDF]
ARL Private University Libraries [PDF]
ARL Canadian University Libraries [PDF]

MEETINGS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (the full ARL/OLMS 2005 calendar):

ARL/ESRI GIS Webcast: Libraries and Digital Mapping in the 21st Century, Feb. 27, 2005, 3-4:30 p.m. EDT

Online Lyceum Course: Measuring Library Service Quality, Feb. 7 - March 18, 2005

ARL Workshop on Web Development with XML: Design and Application, Feb 14-18, 2005 PLEASE NOTE NEW DATES!
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Registration now open for Spring 2005 LibQUAL+(tm) survey

Frequently Used Web sites:

UIC Library:

UIC Library Home Page

About the Library
Note:  This site is updated regularly.

CITY2000
A collection of photographs from more than 2000 photographers spending 366 days canvassing the city and chronicling its people, places and personality.

Daley Library Special Collections

Employee of the Month Award @ UIC Library

Library All-Staff Meetings

Library Faculty Committees

Library Hours

Library News: The Library's Electronic Newsletter on Acquisitions and Initiatives

ULIB Search Engine

Others:

CIC
An academic consortium of twelve major teaching and research universities in the Midwest.

CLS Workshops (including online registration)
UIC staff interested in attending any workshop must first secure permission from their supervisor to attend and justify why the library should pay for their participation. The request requires review by the University Librarian, who will make the final decision.

CRL
A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries acquiring and preserving traditional and digital resources for research and teaching, making them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

ICCMP
Works to meet the diverse information needs of faculty, students, and other library users in Illinois by encouraging cooperative library activity in order to make the best use of resources.

IDAL
Building a collection of full-text and full-image electronic resources that support instruction, study, and research by students, faculty and staff in all eligible Illinois institutions of higher education.

ILA Reporter (a bimonthly newsletter of the Illinois Library Association)

ILCSO
Enhances and expands access to and effectively utilize information resources through collaborative partnerships among ILCSO members and with the Illinois Library community.

IOUG Workshops
Register online. Fees are $10 for IOUG Institutional or Personal Members (per registrant).
UIC staff interested in attending any workshop must first secure permission from their supervisor to attend and justify why the library should pay for their participation. The request requires review by the University Librarian, who will make the final decision.

Web sites You Should Know About

Caxton Club
Includes information of current area exhibits, special library programs and events of bibliographic interest and speaker schedules for members luncheons/dinners.

Chicago Area Archivists
Includes information on programs and events taking place at archives and manuscript repositories in the greater Chicagoland area.

Chicago Area Librarians' Calendar (published by the Chicago Library System):

Chicago Botanic Garden
Promotes gardens and gardening since 1890.

Field Museum
An accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archaeology, science and history.

HistoryMakers
Committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.

Newberry Library
Includes information on programs for the public and a calendar of weekly events.

2005

• Institutional Repository Task Force, 01/07/05

Institutional Repository Task Force
Minutes, Jan. 7, 2005

Present: Ann Weller (chair), Sara Blaszczak, Lisa Zhao, David Austin (recorder), John Cullars, Rich McGowan, Mircea Stefancu.
Minutes were approved as corrected.

Discussion of the imminent presentation of two brown bags for library staff consumed most of the meeting. Ann will lead the discussion on the West side, and David will lead the discussion on the East side. Another member of the task force will act as recorder.

Structure of the discussion was discussed and members of the task force agreed that, after a relatively brief definition of an institutional repository and the D-Space software selected by the group, discussion leaders will stress five major points guide the discussion.

1. How can the library work to get campus buy-in? What process might work best?
2. What contributions to the institutional repository can librarians make?
3. What is the library's role in adding metadata and establishing standards? What are the faculty members responsibilities?
4. What type of material should be added?
5. Any suggestions for departments that might be good for a Campus Advisory Committee?

Some discussion arose about the future of the taskforce and where the oversight for the university’s IR would lie. This will probably be decided elsewhere in the library or the university. John suggested that at some time in the future the issued might be raised in the University Senate. The library will probably continue to have some input in the content and structure of the IR, at least in the area of metadata and general organization.

The next meeting will be held at Daley on Jan. 25, 2005 at 9 a.m.